Brett Baker

He would watch the world burn if it made him rich... James Sinclair Rutherford was one of the richest men in the world. But When his business partner committed suicide, he had an encounter with the supernatural. The ghost of his business partner appeared, warning him that he would be visited by three fates, and if he failed to change his ways, he would be doomed to wander the earth wearing his failures like the chains of the damned. But Rutherford is stubborn and proud. He doesn't believe that there is any reason that he should change his ways, even as he is being confronted by the three fates; the maiden, the midwife, and the crone. He refuses to repent, or relent. Who are the three fates? What are the ultimate consequences of Rutherford's actions? And what will be Rutherford's final fate? Find out in this darkly dystopian retelling of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens for the modern age.

Fury of the Fates

Mengistu Amberber

Mark Harvey

Complex predicates are multipredicational, but monoclausal structures. They have proven problematic for linguistic theory, particularly for proposed distinctions between the lexicon, morphology, and syntax. This volume focuses on the mapping from morphosyntactic structures to event structure, and in particular the constraints on possible mappings. The volume showcases the 'coverb construction', a complex predicate construction which, though widespread, has received little attention in the literature. The coverb construction contrasts with more familiar serial verb constructions. The coverb construction generally maps only to event structures like those of monomorphemic verbs, whereas serial verb constructions map to a range of event structures differing from those of monomorphemic verbs. The volume coverage is truly cross-linguistic, including languages from Australia, Papua New Guinea, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, East Africa and North America. The volume establishes a new arena of research in event structure, syntax, and cross-linguistic typology.

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